Attachment for cultivators



(No Model.)

Z. A. BEEGHER.

ATTACHMENT FOR GULTIVATORS. No. 485,166. Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

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/ I l r I 1 -UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcny ZINA A. BEEOHER, OF MARYSVILLE,OHIO.

ATTACHMENT FOR CULT|VATORS.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,165, dated November1, 1892.

Application filed November 14, 1891. Serial No. 411,874. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ZINA A. BEECHER, acitizen of the United States,residing at Marysville, in the county of Union and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Attachment for Cultivators, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to cultivator attachments; and it has foritsobject to provide an attachment that is to be connected with theordinary double-arch cultivators, whereby the draft of the same will beequalized, and one which will provide for a steady pull of each plow andcompel each horse to pull its own share of the weight and one in whichthe draft will always be equal, whether the horses are in advance or inrear of each other.

With these and many other objects in view, which will readily appear asthe nature of the invention is fully understood, the same consists in anattachment for cultivators constructed in the novel manner hereinafterdescribed, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the tongueand axle of a double cultivator having an attachment connected therewithconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevationof the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents an ordinarydouble-cultivator arch having the axles B, carrying the supportingwheelsand the ordinary cultivator-beams, which are attached thereto in theusual manner. To the center of the upwardly-extending arched portion ofthe arch is secured the forwardly-extending tongue 0, which is connectedin any suitable manner, and is securely braced to the arch and axles bymeans of the inclined braces D, connected with the axles and the saidtongue in advance of the arch. Secured to the under side of thecultivatortongue 0 is the cross-beam E, at right angles thereto andbraced from each outer end to the axles B by means of therearwardly-extending brace-rods F. Secured to the under side of said.cross-beam E at each end are the depending V-shaped swinging supportingand retaining loops G, pivotally connected at their ends to saidcross-beam in order that the same may have a free swinging movement in astraight line without any lateral play. To the under side of said tongue0 at its connection with the center of the upwardly-extendingcultivator-arch is secured the elevating-pulley I-I, while to each axleare secured the guide and draft pulleys I, rigidly connected with saidaxles and at an incline, in order that the draft rope or chain J,passing thereover, may work easily over each of said pulleys withoutslipping off or being cramped in the sheaves thereof. It can be readilyseen that the portion of the draft rope or chain between the twoaxle-pulleys is centrally elevated by the elevating-pulley to correspondwith the arch A, so that the draft-rope will not meet with theobstructions in the path of the cultivator, which is the object of saidarch to overcome and avoid. Said draft chain or rope J passes throughand is supported in the apices of the swinging loops G and is providedat each end with the singletrees K, to which the animals are attached,and said loops not only serve to support the singletrees and draft-chainand hold the same above the ground, but also allow for the forward oradvance pull of one animal over the other, and also prevents thesingletrees from being drawn therethrough or the animal coming in tooclose proximity to the cultivator when he slows up, and by the downwardconvergence of the opposite sides forming the V-shaped loops means areprovided whereby the singletrees cannot be withdrawn from said loops.

I am well aware that it is not new to carry the draft-rope of an evenerattachment from one axle to the other over guide-pulleys; but I am notaware that it is old to employ such draft-rope in connection with theother points of construction herein described and relied upon.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In an attachment for cultivators, the com bination, with the arch-axleand draft-frame and the forwardly-extending tongue secured to the topand center of said arch, of a crossbeam fixedly secured to said tongueatright angles thereto, rearwardly-extending bracerods secured to theopposite ends of said cross:

beam and the axles to hold the beam rigid, V-shaped swinging supportingand retaining ropes pivotall connected at their upper ends to each endof said cross-beam and adapted to swing only in a straight line withoutlateral play, an elevating-pulley secured beneath said tongue at itspoint of connection with the arch, opposite guide and draft pulleysrigidly connected with said axles at an angle pointing to the centralelevating-pulley, a draft rope or chain passing evenly over said centraland the lower opposite guide and draft pulleys and loosely passingthrough and resting in the depending apices of said swinging loops,which readily swing and yield to the uneven tendencies of the draft, andsingletrees connected to the ends of said draft rope or chain outside ofsaid loops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in 20 the presence of two witnesses.

ZINA A. BEEOHER.

Witnesses:

GEO. M. MoPEoK, JOHN F. ZWERNER.

